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The Son of the House

ISBN 
9781485904038
Format 
Epub
Recommended Price 
R255.00
Published 
February 2019
About the book: 
♦ 2021 NIGERIA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
♦ 2019 SHARJAH BOOK FAIR BEST INTERNATIONAL FICTION AWARD
 
In the city of Enugu in the 1970s, young Nwabulu dreams of becoming a typist as she endures her employers’ endless chores. Although a housemaid since the age of ten, she is tall and beautiful and in love with a rich man’s son. 
 
Educated and privileged, Julie is a modern woman. Living on her own, she is happy to collect the gold jewellery love-struck Eugene brings her, but has no intention of becoming his second wife. 
 
When dramatic events straight out of a movie force Nwabulu and Julie into a dank room years later, the two women relate the stories of their lives as they await their fate. 
 
Pulsing with vitality and intense human drama, Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia’s debut is set against four decades of vibrant Nigeria, and celebrates the resilience of women as they navigate and transform what remains a man’s world.
 
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